Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, Tan Twan Eng's haunting novel is set in Malaya in 1951 and follows a young woman recovering from the ravages of WWII. Accepted as the apprentice of a mysterious Japanese gardener in the tea plantations of the Cameron Highlands, she wrestles with her own secrets in a moving historical that recalls the work of David Mitchell.
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